Velocity dispersion and backscatter in marrow-filled and water-filled trabecular bone samples in vitro

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The phase velocity and the backscatter coefficient were measured in 28 bovine femoral trabecular bone samples filled with marrow and water in vitro from 0.2 to 0.6MHz. The phase velocities decreased approximately linearly with increasing frequency and the average dispersion rate of -34 ms(-1) MHz(-1) in the marrow-filled samples was higher than that of -42 ms(-1) MHz(-1) in the water-filled samples. The backscatter coefficients exhibited nonlinear, monotonically increasing dependences on the frequency and the average value of the exponent n = 2.92 (frequency dependence) in the marrow-filled samples was higher than the value of n = 2.79 in the water-filled samples. (C) 2018 Acoustical Society of America

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